Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Music is the crystallization of sound.

Plutarch

Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.

Mike Figgis

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

Jon Stewart

So if you're negative, you live longer? That sounds like a cruel joke.

Julie Andrews

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Julie Andrews

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

Louise Erdrich

I knew each person's delusion, the places their records had scratched, where the sounds repeated.

Louise Erdrich

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

Martin Clunes

The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

Sonny Rollins

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.

John Cage

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot,

John Cage

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.

Neal Stephenson

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

Ritchie Blackmore

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

Michel de Montaigne

Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.

Milan Kundera

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

Mike Lowry

You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.

Mike Love

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

Jonny Lang

When you get just that right audience and just that right sound on stage and you can just sit back and kinda just let it happen and it's not really any work. I love those moments. Nothing can beat that for me.

Edgard Varese

Music is organized sound.

Eddie Condon

Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.

John Irving

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

John Frusciante

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

John Oliver

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

John Badham

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

Jimi Hendrix

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

Jimmy Carr

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

George Lucas

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

Ellie Goulding

I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.

Luke Ford

I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.

Lorde

David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow

Gavin DeGraw

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

Oscar de la Renta

There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.